BOOKS ON ICE: BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE OF POLAR EXPLORATION

pictorial wrappers

2005·New York, NY

by Stam, David H. and Deirdre C. Stam

New York, NY: The Grolier Club, 2005. pictorial wrappers. 6 x 9 inches. pictorial wrappers. 190 pages with 40 illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition of some 100 books, letters, and artifacts by and about major explorers (Frobisher, Franklin, Kane, Hall, Byrd, Cook, Peary, Amundsen, Scott, and Shackleton), and topics such as the Northwest Passage, the Franklin Search, attempts to reach both the North and South Poles, science and society, the anthropology of the North (Rasmussen, Stefansson), literature of the imagination (Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Poe), tourism and commerce, women explorers, and children's literature. 192 pages with 40 illustrations. (Inventory #: 129175)

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